The Agriculture Officer will support the implementation of already defined strategic objectives of the Rainforest Alliance with respect to biodiversity conservation, Regenerative Agriculture, and Integrated Pest Management matters within the organization and specifically, within its programs and activities in close coordination with members of the Nature cluster. The Agriculture Officer will be part of the Themes team within the Advocacy & Themes department of Rainforest Alliance.

Responsibilities:

Support the Nature team in the development and of sector and regional strategies across the organization:

• Provide support to a wide range of projects on environmental/agricultural issues such as biodiversity conservation, deforestation, regenerative agriculture, IPM, etc.;
• Support theme leads in the nature cluster with regional strategy, project development and implementation and developing technical capacity on priority themes;
• Support in the development of M&E frameworks to facilitate the measurement of progress on environmental / agricultural topics;
• Provide general support and guidance to staff and external audiences by providing prompt, informative communications to general queries on Environment themes;
• Support in the development of tools, training and guidance material to be used for Training of Trainers, among other stakeholders; and
• Closely coordinate development of internal and external communications and messaging on biodiversity, regenerative agriculture and integrated pest management together with Communications team, including webpage updates, blogs, press releases and social media outlets.

Team administration / reporting / networking

• Support general reporting on different agriculture and environmental topics.
• Manage programmatic reporting (against workplan and project achievements);
• Coordinate logistics for the team at international conferences, tradeshows, workshops, meetings and trainings;
• Prepare, process and monitor payment requests, invoices and related materials;